About the Unofficial Amstrad World Wide Web Resource

Website history

This website was created in 1993 when I was a student studing Computer Science at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.. It was originally hosted in my personal webspace.

In 1995 I completed my degree. I was no longer a student, so I couldn't keep my webspace. I then had the choice of shutting down the website or moving it to another site. Sergio offered me this permanent home where the site has existed ever since.

Personal history with Amstrad computers

I bought my first Amstrad, a CPC6128 in 1985 when I was 11 years old. It was the first computer I had bought from my own money, having saved up for it over many months. I had earned some of the money doing jobs for friends and family (mowing the lawn, washing the car etc..) with the remainder comming from money given at Christmas and birthdays.

About this website

This website is dedicated to the Amstrad CPC and CPC+ computers and the East German clone the KC Compact. (Models covered: Amstrad CPC464, Amstrad CPC472, Amstrad CPC664, Amstrad CPC6128, Amstrad 464+, Amstrad 6128+, GX4000, KC Compact, Schneider CPC464, Schneider CPC664, Schneider CPC6128).

I am an Amstrad enthusiast and I have created this website to provide information and to preserve information about Amstrad computers. This website is maintained by myself in my spare time. It is a non-profit website, I do not ask or receive any money for it or working on it. This is a fan website run by an enthusiast.

Please note that some documents are covered by copyright. Permission has been granted by the copyright holders to distribute these documents, for free, through this website. If you wish to distribute them through your website then you must contact the copyright holders for their permission.

I am not employed or connected with Amstrad plc. Amstrad are aware of this website and have expressed no objections to it. In fact, Amstrad have given permission for their manuals and documents, relating to the Amstrad CPC, to be put on this website.

These pages are hosted on the "andercheran" server at the University of Valencia in Spain. The site was setup by Sergio who is the administrator for "andercheran". This site is hosted with the knowledge and permission of the University.

The aims of this website:

• To document the hardware, operating system and software of the Amstrad computers and their peripherals.
• To provide a library, with permission of the copyright holders, of Amstrad documentation including manuals from commercial software and hardware
• To preserve the history of the Amstrad CPC/+ computers
• To help other Amstrad enthusiasts to continue to enjoy using Amstrad computers (directly or through emulation)

Thanks

I would like to thank some people for making this website possible. This list is not exhaustive!

Thanks go to:

• The University of Valencia in Spain and Sergio Bayarri Gaussi for giving me permission to host these pages on the andercheran server.
• Everyone who has contributed to this website,
• Fellow Amstrad users who continue to enjoy and support the Amstrad CPC in their own way.

Contacting me

Please feel free to contact me via e-mail.

NOTE:

• Please be patient for a reply. I read this mailbox at the most once a week, sometimes many weeks will pass before I go on-line and check it. I have limited spare time so I am not always able to reply quickly. If you are patient then I will be happy to help.
• If you require a quick answer, then please post a message in the Amstrad newsgroup (comp.sys.amstrad.8bit). There are other knowledgable Amstrad enthusiasts who read this newsgroup regularly and hopefully they will be able to help you.
• Do not send me large e-mails (pictures, binaries etc) without first contacting me for my permission.
• I used to receive a lot of spam messages and approx. 99% of my mailbox was spam. The mail system used by the University has a spam filter installed. I have also installed my own spam filter as a second line of defence. Some spam messages do get through these filters, and these I will filter myself by looking at the title and sender name alone. If you don't want your e-mail to be deleted then please use a good descriptive title. This will help me to discover that your e-mail is genuine and not spam. Thankyou for your co-operation :)

Acknowledgements

Where possible I try to acknowledge trademarks and copyrights.

Amstrad is a registered trademark of Amstrad plc, Brentwood, Essex, UK.
Web: www.amstrad.com